TY  - JA
AU  - Fisher,M.
AU  - Reimer,J.J.
AU  - Lewin,P.A.
AU  - Wornell,E.J.
AU  - Weber,B.A.
TI  - Working yet poor: A quantitative analysis for the United States
SN  - 1087-5549
PY  - 2024///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Quantitative analysis
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Policies
KW  - Poverty reduction
KW  - Propensity score matching
KW  - Livelihoods
KW  - United States of America
N1  - Peer review
N2  - This study uses Current Population Survey data and econometric techniques to examine whether working poor households improve their economic wellbeing by working more hours. For working households overall, full-time work puts them in a 49–78% better position than part-time work (as measured by resources-to-need and depending on methodology). For poor families, however, full-time work makes them 1.3–2.7% better off than part-time work. The latter finding reflects that the higher earnings of full-time work come at considerable cost: lower public assistance benefits and higher medical, work, and childcare expenditures. We discuss policies that may reduce these tradeoffs for poor working households
T2  - Journal of Poverty
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2023.2173116
ER  -